circles tonight that the information that was sought and/or recovered was information that donald trump had declassified. obviously, that would have had to have happened if that is true while he was president, because a former president cannot just take documents that they've got and decide to declassify them. if that were true, there would be some evidence somewhere of that, right? there would be some paper trail, probably want be accessible to you or me, but to people who make determinations about the control of classified information, that would exist. trump can't just say that he didn't classify information in the past. >> that's right. and the way this porks, in the government, is -- this works in the government is the sitting president has the ultimate authority on classification and can make a decision to declassify documents, natural security documents, that he or she cease fit. so any declassification that trump would have made would have had to have happened while he was the president, once he leaves office he obviously loses